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Tweak says, "You got love to burn!"

Kitty Pryde (shadowkitkat) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-06-07 23:21:00

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kitty pryde (616), st john allerdyce (616)

Who: Kitty Pryde and St John Allerdyce
What: A date? Maybe? Kinda? Sorta?
Where: At John's to start
When: Friday!

Dinner. It was such a simple thing and yet as Kitty made her way over to John's house that evening she couldn't help but wonder what exactly she was getting herself into. Things would be so different if they were back home. She'd have still been sorting out things after Piotr and well there was the school to consider and well - he was dead. So she supposed trying to fame this in the context of being back home it was a moot point. This never would have happened there.

But she couldn't help the comparison, maybe it would be a little like Bobby inviting the new Pyro to join the team, bringing him to the wedding. How weird was it that she could find these kinds of similarities between her life and Bobby's after everything? Too weird maybe. Not that it stopped her from agreeing to dinner, or made her want to not spend time with John. He was a little rough around the edges maybe, but he was trying and that was something.

So there she was at his door once more, this time without plates and bottles and all the things she'd had the last time she'd been there. Just her on her own. Maybe she'd run the brush through her hair just a few more times than usual that evening, but she was allowed.

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shadowkitkat
2019-06-10 06:25 am UTC (link)

"You might be right about that," She allowed, she had much more experience with Eastern European slang when it came right down to it. She hadn't missed his accent of course, but hearing it now as he laid it on thick she couldn't help but smile just a little - it was nice in its own way, not the sort of thing that might set her swooning, but nice. "I guess you'll have to teach me a bit if we're going to try speaking the same language."

She always had liked accents maybe it was growing up in middle America with no discernible accent she could tell - she felt jealous of people who did. Which was silly since everyone had an accent to everyone else, it was just a matter of where you were from, she knew this. But hers had been rather boring beginnings before she'd found her way to New York and the X-Men.

Kitty didn't react to the look John cast downward, like he might be able to see where she'd touched him, though she had to try her very best not to let the corners of her mouth turn upwards as she tapped once more entirely straight faced and innocent about the whole thing.

"I'm not sure you'd even know where to begin if you were going to take a turn at being boring." She mused. It didn't seem like him, boring. He was too sharp and too quick to jump. For better or worse boring was not a word she'd use to describe him.

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untamedinferno
2019-06-10 06:48 am UTC (link)

"Well, we'll call that a second date then." John mused some as he leaned forward. "We'll call it something more casual than this fancy evening I had planned for us." John teased lightly to Kitty. Though something about that did please him. It was his heritage, and sure it was something small, but not like many people were lining up to learn the slang of his homeland. Not that John was wanting to use his accent to make Kitty swoon for him, it was just who he was and it was something he was wanting to share.

Of course with his life experiences, he had seen many countries and heard many languages along the South-East Asian countries. Then he had found himself in America, and most of them were quite bland. Blob for example. He sounded like an unintelligent idiot. God he missed that man. He still hoped he was well and alive.

Pyro missed everything about the small smile that might have had displayed. Regardless of missing that, John let a sincere smile creep across his face as he let his foot press ever so slightly against hers.

"You may be right." John mused on his own. "I am to into the idea of diving straight into things." There was a slight shrug of his shoulders. "Sometimes, you just have to immediately act." John said softly. "Despite the pain in the back it might cause." Pyro referenced the time he just put himself in the way of harm for her. Act first, thought second.

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shadowkitkat
2019-06-10 06:58 am UTC (link)

It was probably a fool's errand to talk about second dates while they were still on the first, and yet Kitty just nodded when he suggested it, something a little more casual than this, sharing little bits of each other. It sounded like a nice idea. "I don't know. I'm enjoying the fancy evening so far." She told him. "I wouldn't mind something like this again." Just like she wouldn't mind a more simple evening either. "But maybe a language lesson would be better suited for something a bit more casual."

She was probably diving into this too quickly, a small part of her thought. She hadn't been there in town for very long and here she was with Pyro of all people on what was without a doubt a date - a little less than a month after she'd run out on her own wedding. She hadn't even told John that was what she'd been running from that day, even if he continued asking about it.

It wasn't that any of it felt wrong, and maybe that added to the part of her that felt guilty for enjoying it. She liked John, she wanted to know him more, she was charmed by him - especially tonight, and she didn't feel like she shouldn't be there. She just wondered what Piotr would think if he knew. "Sometimes that's just the way things go." She mused, "You can spend forever hemming and hawing over an idea but in the end you've gotta jump one or stay still and accept whatever happens because of it."

So that's what she was doing, jumping in and seeing where it took her, as she let her foot press against his in return.

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untamedinferno
2019-06-10 07:15 am UTC (link)

This went in line with John's immediately jumping head first into things. He was already on the next date, knowing there was going to be a second one, regardless of this one's ending. Well, he knew this one was going to end just fine. "Well, Kitty, we'll have more fancy evenings too." John confirmed. "I think we have more than enough time for a lot of things here." There was a confident notion in his tone. Of course this was all as long as he did go back to being dead, and she didn't phase out of existence again. That would lead to a very somber ending to whatever this might be turning to.

"Well, let us not hem and haw over things, and just do what comes natural, yes?" John inquired softly letting his eyes lay on her, and as if his question was being answered she responded to him partially physically. Words didn't need to be said on his side of things to determine what they were, he was just happy letting things pan out and grow.

John sipped on his wine some in silent thought about this. "I really enjoy spending time with you, Kitty." John finally said after swallowing the wine. "I don't feel I have to guard myself around you." John softly drummed his fingers on the table top, obviously uncomfortable regarding feelings, though what did he have to lose?

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shadowkitkat
2019-06-10 07:33 am UTC (link)

She smiled when he agreed easily that they'd have more fancy evenings. He was right about this place giving them nothing but time for things like that, whether it was fancy nights or something a little less involved. But a small part of Kitty wondered just how much time they really had here, if this was it - they were here forever so they had all the time they wanted or if it was going to be a more temporary thing and they'd be shunted back to the lives they'd once lead. For her the school and the X-Men and for him ... well that was much more complicated. "We'll have to make the most of it." She said instead of letting those worries out just yet.

"Yes," She agreed when he suggested they just do what came naturally, that could be asking for trouble maybe, but so far it hadn't lead her astray. "I think that's probably the way we should do things." Both just living in this place, but also here just the two of them. Whatever that meant they could figure out together in time as it developed.

Kitty toyed lightly with her glass, as John spoke, though her fingers were moving her eyes were on his as he admitted that he liked spending time with her. It was a kind of honesty she hadn't expected of him, not tonight at least, the sort of thing that might come in time, yes - but for him to open up like this here and now? Well Kitty was surprised, but in a good way. "I've been enjoying spending time with you." As surprising as that might have been just a month ago, it was true. She had a good time when they spent time together, even when he was in a mood, they still managed to find their way around to a good time.

"I like you, like this." She told him, not just tonight dressed so nicely with dinner laid out and wine, but just open with himself, letting her see who he really was and not just the guy with the fire. "I've been doing the X-Men thing for so long now, it's easy to forget that we're all just you know, people, mutants. We're not all that different the way it can seem sometimes. This isn't really what I'd have chosen, being pulled here to this place, but I'll admit it's nice to not be pulled into some new crisis every other day, to just ... breathe for a little while. And spend time actually getting to know you."

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untamedinferno
2019-06-10 12:53 pm UTC (link)

There was something in John that wanted to go about this differently. Considering his life of crime and terrorism really hadn't left much room for him to chase to much romantically or even personally. Frankly, what honor among thieves was very few amidst the company he kept. Sure some were more friendly, like Blob, but the rest it was just... business. So this left John wanting to do better, possibly be better? Was that a thing he could truly achieve? Pyro was fighting his own demons around this, but what he did know for fact was this. He wasn't going to wait to wake up dead. John smiled to mask his own worries on the topic.

When Kitty agreed that they should just let things come naturally, there was a nervous pang on what that could mean. Hell, he wasn't sure what it meant in himself yet speculating what it meant for Kitty.

The way Kitty watched him, made John feel exposed, which in turn made him want to double back back into himself. It was absolutely a defense mechanism, that he was happy to have, though with Kitty he would give his good ole college try on not doing that. Kitty was surprised? Try being Pyro, and you'd be equally surprised. He'd blame it on his notion of heads first into things. Not wanting to overthink things and just enjoy the now, especially since she was also enjoying time with him. That was a bonus right?

"Well." John smiled. "Don't read into it too much." His hand gestured towards how he was dressed. "This is just a facade. I'm still just an villain on the inside." John muttered quietly, which is how Pyro saw himself. Internal demons and all. The pair of them, they fought for the same things, just in different ways. Hers was much more diplomatic that was for sure. "Well, we're cut of different clothe." John confirmed. "But ultimately I've enjoyed this second chance, if we call it that." John let his gaze fall on Kitty's face, taking her in, all her slightest features. "This is just like a vacation from the real world that sucks. Can we just sort of... stay on it?"

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shadowkitkat
2019-06-11 06:05 am UTC (link)

She rolled her eyes when he suggested the clothes were just a show, that underneath it all he was unchanged. "I think you really do believe that." She said first because that much was obvious, he said it enough, and no doubt heard it often enough about himself. But that didn't mean it was true. If he was nothing but a villain on the inside he never would have saved the Senator, or put himself in harms way for her, or pulled this dinner together. He might not see it yet, but Kitty could see that beneath all of that there was kindness, even if the edges of it were rough.

"It's not the clothes you wear that make you who you are. The uniform was never what made me an X-Man anymore than what you have on now make you anything other than who you are." She told him simply, clothes were unimportant at the end of the day, whether she was in a wedding dress, the X-Men uniform, or just a well fit pair of jeans and a nice top like tonight. That wasn't important, it wasn't who either of them were.

And removing them from those things, from the uniforms and the groups behind them, it made it easier to get to know one another without all of that getting in the way, to see past those things and see if there really was common ground between them. And from where she sat there did seem to be some. It was all a matter of finding more now.

She smiled, "I'm glad you have, I think a second chance is exactly what we can call it. A little like starting over, without so much of the past hanging over you. It's up to you how much of it you want to bring with you." Because other than the X-Men who were left here, these people didn't know John, and they certainly didn't know Pyro. He had a chance to make this a true second chance. "I don't know that I'd call this a vacation from the real world, but it is something different, and I think neither of us has much of a say in whether or not we stay. But I hope we're here for a while longer." As much as she probably needed to get back, there would always be something there that needed her attention, some new problem some new threat. To be in a place without any of that. Well she liked that, and she liked what was happening here with John.

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untamedinferno
2019-06-11 01:24 pm UTC (link)

To her statement about he truly believed it, all she got was a small shrug. His story was written already. Simple as that. Sure, it was mostly a joke, because John knew he was so much more than the fire he left in his wake. Example, most didn't know he was an accomplished writer and were often surprised to learn that. Simple facts of his life before he joined the Brotherhood. As much as he was the villain of the story, he would acknowledge simple facts. Yes, he had a small anger issue, also yes he had done good things, but the bad out weighed the good. It was complicated being the bad guy.

There was a warm smile on his face while she explained that the clothes didn't make a person who they were, and there was no truer statement on that. "Speaking of clothes," Pyro purred. "You look very nice tonight." He kept his eyes on her to distract from the conversation at hand. "I mean, not as nice as me, but hard to compete with a tie and when you look this damn good." John teased lightly. It was absolutely liberating to be something that resembled normal here. Away from prying eyes and those who knew his true colors.

Bobby Drake. They probably would never see eye to eye, and that was fine. Pyro never wanted to be an X-Men, and that whole cup of tea was going to be hard pressed to convince him was worth it. But being a professor, leading the X-Men, seemed to fit Ms. Pryde from where Pyro was watching from the sidelines.

"Well, I'm just being me. Not like this place has a bank for me to rob." Luckily Pyro had the doors for that. Simply just able to go get what he needed. Hell the trip for this date, Pyro didn't even steal anything. He just... worked for some of it and paid for the rest. His first trip through the doors, he stole and robbed enough cash to last him in modern worlds for a bit. After all, he was still a villain... kinda. "It's a vacation if we make it that way. As long as we.." Have each other. "Make it what we want it to be, anything can be a vacation." A bright smile crossed his lips. "And I have no where to be, so I'm not going anywhere." Pyro commented happily.

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shadowkitkat
2019-06-11 11:25 pm UTC (link)

She laughed and nodded, "Yes I think you probably do win tonight's fashion competition." She agreed as he teased her - she maybe should have found something a little bit nicer, but the last thing she'd wanted was to show up and then realize she'd misread things. That would have only ended poorly for them both.

Another time though, she'd do just a little bit more, now that she was a little bit more certain about where they were both coming at this. Tonight though, she liked seeing John go on about himself.

"Please don't tell me I'm going to have to worry about you robbing a bank if that does ever become the sort of thing we decide is needed here." Her tone just a little teasing. He'd spent so long in the company of those who were only too happy to have themselves viewed as the bad guy, who put themselves outside of the rules of society, she wasn't surprised that his initial introduction had been a bit rocky, these kinds of things were learned behaviors for all of them. She thought he was better than he liked to let on though, he certainly seemed to be in her experience thus far, he was funny and attractive even with all his rough edges.

"I think they call those a staycation these days." She teased, but she liked the sentiment, anything could be a vacation. It might not have been the vacation any of them would have chosen but they didn't have to be miserable here. They could make the most of it - this chance they'd been given to do something new and different. For however long they had. "Good, I think I'd miss you if you did."

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untamedinferno
2019-06-12 03:05 am UTC (link)

Regardless how she dressed, his eyes remained on her. Soaking in her entirety. Feasting on each individual feature with out any particular disdain or particularly hiding it. At this point, John didn't care if she saw the look. This has happened and frankly, why hide it. "Nah. Truthfully, you couldn't lose that competition."

There was a stunned look on Pyro's face. "How dare you, Kitty Pryde!" He faked is complete and utter surprised look. "I would never. Never have I ever robbed a bank just to get shot, sent to the hospital, and then charmed my way back out into hiding." He placed his hand up as if he was clutching fake pearls. "How dare you insinuate I am anything but a model citizen." Then there was that charming yet devilish grin of his. Sure, he was.. well him, but he wasn't about to rock this boat he was in with Kitty. Despite a number of the pretty rocky introductions he had made. It's fine. He'd rebound. Probably.

"Staycation. Ugh. Millennial's and their weird words." Pyro rolled his eyes some with a smirk. All that mattered, the pair of them were here and able to have this conversations. Whatever they may be. "I think I'd miss you too if you were to phase away on me." Pyro considered a moment. "I'd pine for you for a whole two days."

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shadowkitkat
2019-06-12 07:08 am UTC (link)

"Stop that," She didn't miss the way he was looking at her, it made her want to do something ridiculous like blush or something like that. She wasn't of course, but it was something she hadn't expected of him, for him to look at her like that, it felt a little like it came out of no where, and like they might have been headed this way from the start.

Thankfully he was good at making her laugh and that urge was gone replaced with her amusement at his pretend outrage over her suggestion that he just might rob a bank at some point. "Oh no, I know - you've been on your very best behavior." She agreed, certainly not in a hurry to push him to be anything but exactly what he claimed to be - that look on his face though. Well she knew what that meant.

Not a sudden desire for evil doing, or anything of the sort, but certainly a tease. He could get up to some mischief, of that much she was absolutely certain.

"It could be worse, I mean have you heard of fomo?" She asked him, raising an eyebrow at him as he smirked, it was silly and fun to tease

She wasn't used to this kind of open honesty from him, a lot of what they'd talked about up to this point had been silly little things, poking at one another, laughing and trying not to get too caught up in the way they used to be, the way they were supposed to be. "Just two days? Not even a full fifty hours?"

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untamedinferno
2019-06-12 01:20 pm UTC (link)

Her telling him to stop only brought a smile to his lips, but the look went no where. John was in it, and why shouldn't Kitty see how he felt. Truthfully, Pyro never expected this for a moment, especially with an X-Men. But if felt natural, or right. Since being here, and since not having to fight off mutant hating humans, and fighting his adversaries, he could just focus on, well, this. This being him and Kitty of course.

Of course he was. He was a god damn saint! Kinda. "Well you know me, model citizen and keeper of all that is good." John mused with a shrug and a light chuckle. "I admit, having someone around.." John started before looking for his words, that weren't That I want to be good for . "You make it seem easy." He compromised with himself. "You make it look easy too."

"Fomo. I don't want to know. Fomo." Pyro sneered a little. "It just sounds disgust." He thought about it for a moment. "Yah gurl, ya wanna fomo?" Then Pyro followed up with another disgusted look on his face. "Disgusting.

Sure, he was being honest, but it had increasingly become easier he found. With some people. Kitty, he trusted. She was showing him the ease of doing the right thing, which felt gross, and then Carol had his back during their daring escape. Something about near death and combat that made a pair of people closer? "Hm. I think I could pine for fifty hours. That's fair. I'll give you fifty." Pyro smiled at her to truly express his feelings.

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shadowkitkat
2019-06-13 04:10 am UTC (link)

Sometimes maybe that was all people needed, just someone around who helped to make things seem easier. It was probably why she'd done what she had so young, despite Professor Xavier's wishes. Kitty saw her friends going out and fighting and saving people, she could do that too - she could help people. She'd seen them do it and knew she could. And maybe she could be that for not just John, but other's too. It was why she believed in the school so much.

"Well you know us teachers." She said with a soft laugh and a smile just for him. He wasn't her student, and she certainly wouldn't pretend like he was, but she did like being able to help make things just a little easier for him.

Laughing at the face he pulled as he heard about fomo, it really did sound terrible when you said it like that, there were all sorts of words these days that she didn't understand. "Would it help if I told you that fomo isn't something you do?"

"We should probably shake on it." She teased, as he agreed to a full fifty hours of mourning in her honor. "Just to be sure that it's official and all of that. And then after you've pined for the allotted amount of time, you'll have to keep a picture of me up on your wall from here on out as a reminder that once you knew me."

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untamedinferno
2019-06-13 06:27 pm UTC (link)

It was a saying, being a product of those you are around. When others are doing good, it was easier to follow that path. Though good ole Pyro, much rather his rougher side, but being a criminal wasn't in his liking any more. To rich for his blood. Too much chaos, and he was more for the controlled chaos. Even with that, though, Pyro didn't particularly trust humans or people. To wishy washy and filled with predetermined notions on mutants. The population could go fuck themselves.

"I do know one. She's real opinionated, and might fine at her job." John matched her smile as he glanced at the burning candle on the table. Burning away during however long they've been enjoying their time together.

"Something I wouldn't do?" John thought for a minute. "What fuck on the first date? I'm a lady, Kitty Pryde. You gotta woo me better than that." His smile remained with his teasing tone. "F..O..M..O..." He tapped his finger on his chin. "Fit oranges, mangos, and orangutans?" He asked obviously oblivious to the true meaning.

"Who. Picture on the wall for everyone to see." John held his hands up to slow her down. "I'll mourn you, but the picture is tough one." He leaned forward some. "I mean, we haven't even kissed yet" John's blues fell on her with that smile and that very specific look of his. "Unless you want to change that."

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shadowkitkat
2019-06-13 09:55 pm UTC (link)

"Can't be a teacher if you aren't filled with opinions." Kitty teased with a small smirk, "Or so I've heard." She added, as if she wasn't the very teacher in question. It was never really the sort of thing she imagined for herself, teaching, training up the next generation, but it had fit well for a time. Here though, it left her a little bit unsure of what her role should be. Jean didn't need a teacher anymore, and neither did any of the other mutants, and there were no X-Men for her to lead here.

So all she was left with was teasing about it. Which was fine, she'd just have to find something more to do with her time. And for now that included spending more time with John.

She laughed when tried to think of what fomo could possibly mean, shaking her head at him when he made his vulgar suggestion. "I'll be sure to remember that." She said dryly, bit with a smile on her face, letting him come up with one more guess before she decided to take pity on him. "I'm told it means fear of missing out." She explained, "So you see that your friends are at the park having a good time one afternoon, and you are filled with fomo - the fear that they're having a good time without you and you're missing all of it."

It was - well she understood the sentiment, she just wasn't entirely sure they needed a word for it. Or whatever fomo actually was, it probably wasn't a real word.

She narrowed her eyes at him just a little when he balked at her suggestion of a picture, because they hadn't kissed yet. As if that should make a difference at all. "Let's wait and see how tonight goes before we decide we're changing that." Though that look on his face, and well mostly everything from tonight had left Kitty open to the idea of it at the very least.

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untamedinferno
2019-06-14 03:08 pm UTC (link)

"It's something very accurate." Pyro confirmed. "I think we're speaking of the same one. Opinionated, good at her job, and absolutely stubborn." With a sigh and a smile he watched. "Though I think she leaves me be mostly, just brings food and drinks to cheer me up." Though truthfully, it was her presence that did it for him. She had a way about her that allowed him to be comfortable around her. Plus, it wasn't like she had to try and convince him to turn a new leaf and joint he X-Men, there wasn't anyone else around to make him join up with.

Raising a brow at her explanation of fomo. Disgusting. "That's ridiculous." He promptly said. "Please, let me miss out on things. I'm content and happy with missing out on things." With a sigh of content, he continued. "People can have their fun and their problems. I'm just happy sitting here with you, and not having anything to worry about." John paused thinking about it. "It's like retirement." He laughed softly.

"But kids will be kids, and always think their missing out on the next real fun thing. I'm just too old to care." John said with a smile.

"You're right." John got a face to feign seriousness. "We have to wait to see if I allow you to kiss me at the end of our date. I am a lady." Then there was a low smirk towards her.

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shadowkitkat
2019-06-15 12:59 am UTC (link)

She smiled when he talked about her a little more, continuing their ruse just a bit longer. "Well you know that's how I was raised, food and drinks were always the way to cheer people up or make things better." She explained. Her home life hadn't always been perfect, but that was one thing the Prydes had always agreed on. They were food people, whether it was taking care of one another or if it was offering a little support to a friend.

"Oh come on," She said laughing at the face he made when she explained, "It's not that bad. Better than Yolo at least." Because that had been truly disgusting, fomo was at least the sort of thing that kind of made a little bit of sense to her. "At least while we're here we probably won't have to worry about that sort of thing, it was mostly an internet sort of thing." Sure it carried over into the real world for some people, but Kitty had a feeling the average person didn't run into people talking about fomo anywhere outside a screen.

"God, it really is a bit like retirement isn't it?" She said briefly stunned by the idea of it - it wasn't of course, they weren't just finished with all their work and ready to do whatever they liked until they finally were ready to leave this world, but it was similar enough that the very idea of it made her shake her head. "Luckily with you being old enough for retirement you'll have enough free time not to miss out on anything." She teased.

Kitty sobered up as he teased her wearing her own mock serious face as they talked. "You're right, I'd never want to assume a lady like you would want anything of the sort on a first date."

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untamedinferno
2019-06-16 05:13 am UTC (link)

"Well, it worked. Mostly your company did it, but the food wasn't a bad touch." John answered honestly. It was nice having someone who he could depend on, with out anything being required in return. It made him want to do nice things for her in return, like this night.

Win win. Something nice for just her, and spending time with Kitty. He'd take this type a night any time.

There was a blank look on his face as she mentioned this... yolo. "What the fuck is yolo?" John asked unamused by the thought. He already knew he wasn't going to like it. "It's something incredibly stupid isn't it?" Pyro already determined this notion.

Calling him old made John make a face of pure offended offense. "How dare.." He started and then he shrugged. "You're right. I'm an old man. Go get me a walker and get off my lawn." Pyro shook his fist meaninglessly in the air. "Whippersnappers!" Then he chuckled a little. "At least this is a relaxing place mostly." Pyro mentioned with a shrug.

"That's right." John confirmed. "I wore my best dress for this night, I refuse to be treated like some simple drum worker." Then he smiled teasingly.

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shadowkitkat
2019-06-18 07:18 am UTC (link)

"The dancing wasn't bad either," She added with a small tease, that had turned out to be a pretty fun night, especially after she'd worried that it wouldn't end well with the party and everything else going on. She'd known he'd be in a mood when she came to see him, but by the end of the night things had gotten a lot better than when she'd arrived - she liked being able to do that for him. And not just for him, his company had been nice for her as well, the party was nice of course, but it was still a party for Tony Stark and she'd needed a little space from that. John's company had been most welcome.

Just like it was tonight.

Kitty laughed out loud when he admitted to not knowing about yolo either, he really had missed out on a lot. "Oh yes, even I can admit that one is incredibly stupid." She nodded, "You only live once," She said shaking her head as she sighed, it really was just terrible.

His mock outrage at being called old morphed fairly quickly into acceptance of his new place in the world and she smiled watching it happen before she nodded. "It is pretty relaxing." She agreed, though she wondered how long it could last. This place was calm for now, but that couldn't last forever, Kitty had never seen any place that could sustain something like that for long. It was just a matter of time and she hoped that when something did finally happen it wouldn't be the sort of atomic bomb that she feared.

"I would never," She said pressing a hand to her chest as if to suggest she was truly genuine, "I have absolutely no designs on impugning your virtue tonight, I promise you."

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untamedinferno
2019-06-18 08:40 pm UTC (link)

There was a quick smile in thought of the dancing. It was good, the dancing. They were able to have fun through the night and that made the hangover the next morning much more tolerable oddly enough. Being the loose cannon he was, sometimes liquid encouragement did exactly that. Encourage him to be positive and not get into trouble.

The stunned expression on John's face around yolo probably was priceless. It was so fucking stupid! He shook his head. "Nope. Not doing it." He raised his hands. "I give up. Send me back to my grave. I can't live on this world anymore." Then he laughed. "Yolo. How fucking ridiculous is that." Despite Pyro's distaste for the word, he was still smiling at Kitty.

"It's incredibly relaxing. I've been quite fond of it to be honest." A man of danger, relaxation was something that was appreciated. But deep seeded was the thoughts of everyone revolting against the mutants, and then he'd have to take up arms and do terrible things. Things Kitty wouldn't want. Then he'd lose her too. That was the one thing Pyro didn't want, so he was perfectly content with the peaceful nature of the place until that day. "Lets just enjoy it together, eh?"

With Kitty confirming that she wasn't going to tread onto his virtue, Pyro couldn't help. Lifting his hand, pointing up he waggled his finger in a circle causing the candle flames near by to circle and dance. John grinned a smile at Kitty. "That's too bad. Because I was intending to throw my virtue out the window right with my shame."

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shadowkitkat
2019-06-19 06:37 am UTC (link)

Kitty couldn't help but laugh once more, she'd have to fill him in just a little bit more about the slang of today's youth in the future if only to get him to react like that a bit more. "Don't worry, I think most of the people who talk like that are probably back in the real world." She soothed him with a small smirk, "Who knows maybe someone here will come up with some new and awful slang for your enjoyment." They had quite a few younger people here after all - it could happen. "Don't give up on the world just yet."

Pyro wasn't the only one who had that fear, though most of the humans here seemed to have never have heard of mutants where they were from, so it seemed just a little bit unlikely that they'd turn on them. But after a lifetime of seeing just how easily humans did turn on mutants, Kitty couldn't let herself grow complacent in that either - it was something she was always on the watch for no matter what sort of front she presented to the world around her.

"I think that's a very good idea," She agreed when he suggested they just enjoy it, there wasn't much else for them to do at this point - so there was no rush to go spoiling it worrying about the things that could happen but likely wouldn't.

Her eyebrow rose just a touch as she watched the flap begin to move just a little under his direction as he grinned at her. "Oh is that so?" She asked him, "And here I thought you weren't that kind of girl."

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untamedinferno
2019-06-19 01:34 pm UTC (link)

It was easy for John to just be disgusted by this. With the fact he was a published writer, and people were slaughtering the English language for their own pleasures. Disgusting. "The youth of the world I have departed need to be slapped." Pyro stated in a droll unforgiving manner. "We have words for a reason, we should use them." Then the thought of new witty slang terms hurt Pyro deeply. "That hurts. I sure the fuck hope someone here doesn't slaughter the English language for their own enjoyment."

Pushing the what if's and the what could happens to the side, John was thrilled enough to focus on Kitty entirely. Kitty and this date. There wasn't reason to believe that the people here would cause them, as in mutants, any harm. There wasn't any signs of that and most of the people took in stride their abilities, so, there was that. "Well, I am often very full of great ideas. Just no one listens." John smirked.

Keeping the flames moving about he focused on her. "What can I say." John mused for a moment. "I lied." Then chuckled lightly.

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shadowkitkat
2019-06-19 10:33 pm UTC (link)

"Let's be honest," Kitty said shaking her head, "Everyone where we're from needs to be slapped over something." It was just the way the world worked, there was always something doing something stupid, maybe they'd all be a lot better off with a slap like that.

She enjoyed that he was so particularly annoyed by the perceived slight to the English language - it wasn't what she expected from him, but it was sweet. "You know that's what people do right? Someone is always coming up with some new weird word, or shortening something else, trying to make Fetch happen." Kitty lifted her shoulders, there were some battles worth fighting, she just wasn't sure this was one of them.

"You just tell me your great ideas, I'll make sure they get heard." And not just by her, though of course she was more than happy to be the first.

Kitty bit her lip just briefly watching him play with the flame, "You, lie?" She scoffed lightly, "I'd never thought you could do such a thing." It was said teasingly, playfully, though they both had a few boundaries, he hadn't told her a real lie since he'd arrived as far as she knew.

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untamedinferno
2019-06-20 05:14 am UTC (link)

"The wisest thing you have ever said, Kitty." Pyro almost purred. You can put a little good in the boy, but the anger and violence in the boy sometimes just came out. "Just a good slap, right across their face." He smirked some.

Around her, he was fine letting her know things about him. Things that he'd never tell another soul. Well, her, he'd do one better. John figured if he had ever come across any of his old books, he'd let her read em. Because, well... that was a part of his history he did not brag about. How did you brag about Gothic romance novels? You just didn't. Hell, he told Carol and he'd burn the town down to keep that secret a secret. But he also didn't think she'd share. "Ugh. Yes, people make up stupid words that are fragments of words, so they can say things quicker. Ridiculous." Sure, slang had a place, but slang was not the same as the bullshit of god damn yolo.

While Kitty offered to make sure his ideas were heard, John only smiled.

There was a real laugh. Touche, really. "Well, to be fair.." He started while he made the flames jump and twirl. "I haven't had a need to lie to you, nor desire to." John looked away from, uncomfortable with the real feelings of the topic focusing on the flames in the air now.

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shadowkitkat
2019-06-20 05:29 am UTC (link)

She laughed as he agreed all too easily with her suggestion that everyone needed to be slapped. "I think it'd be a wakeup call for them all." She said with as much seriousness as she could manage.

It was just the way the world worked, everyone with their cellphones and hash tags and all of that these days, Kitty supposed that was just the price to pay - the internet creating ridiculous words and things that had no actual meanings in the real world. "You know I bet people said the same thing when people started saying things like groovy." She said instead. "The actual good words manage to find a place and stick, while the more ridiculous ones fade out eventually." Like yolo, that was one you heard less and less these days.

It was shaping up to be a really nice night, her worries about what it would be, if they were rushing something or anything like that faded after she and John had started talking, and soon enough she was simply enjoy herself, enjoying flirting just a bit, and teasing, and just talking. So when he told her that he hadn't had the need or desire to lie to her, well that was something Kitty liked hearing.

"I'm glad you haven't, I don't want you to feel like you have to lie to me about anything." She told him honestly, and while she had delighted in watching him play with the flames she found her attention on his face now even as he looked away from her now. "Being able to actually talk to you has been - well an unexpectedly good part of being here." He was easy to talk to despite everything and it was nice actually getting to know him now.

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